Example sentences of "[adj] man ['s] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hale and hearty young archivists stood by , worried that she might die — worried partly because of the venerable old man 's fever that she should n't , and partly because of professional affront at the possibility of all that memorabilia going west . |
| 2 | ‘ Actually , that poor girl 's a bit cut up about something , ’ Leo said , putting an affectionate arm around the younger man 's shoulders as they watched Cindy in the garden . |
| 3 | If salmon is still the rich man 's herring , one can no longer think of herrings as the poor man 's salmon for they have become so expensive that one buys them by the troy ounce . |
| 4 | There was respect in the older man 's eyes as he looked at her . |
| 5 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 6 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 7 | ’ … and Millie was sick on that man 's hat when we were oan the roller-coaster . ‘ |
| 8 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 9 | The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back . |
| 10 | It was while I was attending Sally Carmichael 's dancing class that I accidentally entered a beauty contest — the local Working Men 's Club where we practised was running a ‘ Queen of Sheffield Working Men 's Clubs ’ contest . |
| 11 | As I tottered away I paused and addressed the big man 's back as he prepared for his next victim . |
| 12 | Nicholson caught the note of sarcasm in the other man 's voice but he did not turn , did not look at the visitor . |
| 13 | The young man 's disillusionment when it comes confirms , not only the observer 's prediction , but the superiority of his evaluation over the young man 's , although not necessarily its correctness . |
| 14 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 15 | But he said the young man 's fears that he would fail his exams were almost certainly unfounded . |
| 16 | Cotterell looked up blankly for a moment , and then Carson and his wallet slid into a niche in the young man 's mind and he smiled . |
| 17 | ‘ Soccer is a young man 's game and I do not intend to work 15 hours a day , seven days a week . ’ |
| 18 | Cos people often used to say to me because I 'd , I 'd played everything you could play except golf , and , and er , and I , I , people used to say you did two men 's work and you I , I met a chap one day , this was an instance , I 'm not trying to blow me trumpet do n't think that at all . |
| 19 | Mahler needed to become a conductor of other men 's music before he became a real composer . |
| 20 | I have stuck with Esquire longer than I have stuck with any other men 's magazine and I feel that the magazine is now getting very close to achieving the ideal balance of content and format . |
| 21 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |